Three Happiness Stories

Three Happiness Stories:

Henry Ford, R. H. Macy, and F. W. Woolworth were all happiness promoters.

Henry Ford: While Ford is today known for the assembly line and his success in building Ford; Motor Company;wasn't an instant success. In fact, his early businesses failed and left him broke five times before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company. His ultimate success came about from his willingness to put forth effort and to work hard to achieve his goals. Where would we be today without the automobile? How would be able to move about and meet our needs? I don't think the horse and buggy would work in today's nuclear society. Transportation would definitely be affected. Ford found fulfillment and happiness by building his business.

Most people are familiar with this large department store chain, but Macy didn't always have it easy; Macy failed seven times before finally hitting big with his store in New York City. Like Henry Ford, Macy; continued to exhibit the desire to keep producing until he achieved his objectives.He found happiness and success by finding his talent and building his business. He also worked to ensure success for his employees. He built success by capitalizing on his strengths and by developing his employees' talents.

Some may not know this name today, but Woolworth was once one of the biggest names in department stores in the U.S Young Woolworth worked at a dry goods store and was not allowed to wait on customers because his boss said he lacked the sense needed to do so. I think he proved his boss wrong.Woolworth did not listen to negative prognostications. He persisted until the job was done. He overlooked naysayers and became his own personal "yaysayer." Woolworth found fulfillment by establishing one of the largest dime store franchises in history.

How about you? Which goals do you want to pursue? Where can you find your happiness? How can you emulate Woolworth, Macy, and Ford in their efforts to extend happiness to their customers? How can you build success by relying on your strengths? How can you promote yourself and build a happy life?

Think about it. Be a happiness promoter. Reach out and extend yourself to your community and your country. Make the world a better place. Think outside the box and work to be a developer, an encourager, and an entrepreneur.

Become a happiness encourager.

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How to Work Through the Pain to Get to the Pleasure

Some, not all of us realize that we need to work through our experiences in a conscious fashion rather than analyze, over and over again in our minds what happened and tell ourselves, in our head, that we're okay and we're ready to move on. We tell ourselves such stories! Such tales of garbage.

The Ego is strong and wants to keep you petty and immature. The truth hurts sometimes, yes, it does free you from the constraints of your past history and allow you to see a different way to behave. This opportunity to see through a different lens rather than our own limiting view are the times when we access important information about ourselves and life that was always there but hidden. The learning process may not be easy, but it's full of lessons that bring us wisdom we can't find any other way.

The desire to press fast-forward leads to escapism, contradiction, and denial, all three of which prolong our difficulties and in some cases make them worse. Our willingness to be direct, clear, and courageous in the face of our circumstances gives us the tools to finding peace, understanding and love again, allowing us to move through the situation with resolutions not seen or available to us before.

Yes! I said resolutions! More than one. Armed with this understanding, you may begin to realize that trying to find the fast-forward button is probably not the best option, perhaps it's about pressing the pause button. When you truly grasp, deep down inside that the only way out of any situation in which you find yourself, whether it's easy or difficult is to go through it, you stop looking for ways to escape and start paying close attention to what is happening, in the moment.

This is the first step to shifting your current perspective and putting on a different lens. You, now present in this moment, realize that you are exactly where you need to be. You can now choose a course of action instead of doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. With this new found awareness comes something you didn't know before and will now help you make a better choice.

The process of awareness can be easy, gentle and kind or a hard hitting crack between the eyes, either way it depends on how willing you are to give up being right, making someone else wrong or dominating another and choose love, peace, or compassion instead.

Choose to see all perspectives. Get clear on what you would love in your life, is it getting along better with your spouse now that the kids are gone? Is it peace in your work relationships? Understanding yourself?

Love, passion, affinity, contentment, courage, all these feelings are available to you so are hate, annoyed, tense, fearful, guilt, shame. Positive thinking alone will not shift your perspective, but balanced thinking, which opens the heart to gratitude and love will. In the moment you might be ready to fire and employee but with perspective, balanced thinking, you'll see there's more going on than you thought.

When you feel the urge to press the fast-forward button, remember that you are not alone; we all instinctively avoid pain. But in doing so, we often prolong our pain and delay important opportunities to learn. As you choose to move forward in real time and see all sides of the circumstance, obstacle or challenge, ask yourself how does what I think stifle me or serve me?

This balanced thinking will lower your stress and increase your vitality, comprehension and enthusiasm.

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